Student Research Projects

Social Sciences

Corey Ackerman, 2010 - AIDS patients in NYC
Funding: McMahon Internship
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Meraz Ahmad, 2006 - Discrepancies in the Bilateral Trade Balance of the U.S. and China and the consequences of the U.S. - China Trade Deficit
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Brett Altier, 2005 - The Impact of China Opening its Economy to Foreign Firms
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Chelsea Back, 2010 - Religious intolerance in the United States: The Attack Against Atheists
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Political Science
Carly Baird, 2009 - Give the Drummer Some: Identifying Motivic Development in the Jazz Comping Style of Drummer Billy Higgins
Funding: Laura C. Harris Endowed Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Simonne Benoit, 2007 - Examination of Vegetation Succcession in a Recently Constructed, Central Ohio Wetland
Funding: The Carl Arvid Anderson Family Fund
Major: Environmental Studies
Kellen Booher, 2008 - Dollarization: Exploring the Latin American Experience
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics, Spanish
Tricia Brauer, 2009 - Consumerism and Desire: The Cultivation of Chinese Feminism in Urban China
Funding: The Carl Arvid Anderson Family Fund
Department: Soc/Anth
Anthony Burger, 2009 - The negative impacts of mosquitofish in the Denison University Biological Reserve via competition with native fauna
Funding: McBride Arend Summer Scholarship Program
Department: Environmental Studies
Hanyun Cai, 2010 - Medical Anthropology and the Global South: Chinese Barefoot Doctors and the Public Health Reform in Developing Countries
Funding: Laura C. Harris Endowed Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Lauren Campbell, 2005 - Health and Social Justice: Tracking Changes in Iraqi Public Health, 1980-2000
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science and International Studies
Stephanie Chan, 2007 - Annual Macroinvertebrate Community Development in a Newly-Created Wetland
Funding: The Carl Arvid Anderson Family Fund
Major: Environmental Studies
Bernard Zhong'en Chen, 2010 - The Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and the "Subprime Mortgage Crisis": is Deregulation to be blamed?
Funding: The Carl Arvid Anderson Family Fund
Department: Economics
Fritzkeysha Chery, 2010 - Acculturation of Somali Refugees in Columbus, Ohio
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Socioloy/Anthropology
Darrin Collins, 2006 - Sustainable Urban Development: The Ills of Gentrification
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Environmental Studies
Amanda Conley, 2008 - Christianity in a Modern Economy
Funding: Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major: Religion, Economics
Leigh Courtney, 2009 - Unmasking the Anthropologist: The Merits and Pitfalls of "Creative Ethnography"
Funding: The William G. Bowen and Mary Ellen Bowen Endowed Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Jason Cox, 2008 - The Framing of War as Ethical in the Vietnam and Iraq Wars
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Theresa Daniel, 2008 - Thugs and Ho's: Are negative representations in media changing the way Black adolescents' identities internalize Black "uplift films"?
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Communication
Christopher Dayer, 2005 - Effects of the introduced fish, Gambusia affinis, on native tadpoles
Funding: The Denison University Research Foundation
Major: Environmental Studies
Nora Deeg, 2009 - Perspective in the English Language Learners (ELLs) in Granville, OH, and Surrounding Districts
Funding: Paul R. Ashbrook Endowed Fund for the Betterment of the Underprivileged
Department: Spanish
Chris Dunn, 2010 - Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America
Funding: The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Department: Political Science
Emily Ernes, 2010 - The Columbus Pride Parade: Paradoxical GLBT Images and Identities in the Central Ohio Gay Community
Funding: Laura C. Harris Endowed Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Bess Everett, 2005 - Dance of the Fighter: Roles of Martial Arts in East Asia and America
Funding: East Asian Studies Fund
Major: Sociology Anthropology
Brooke Felts, 2010 - Abstinence Only: A Review of Ohio Sexual Education Programs and Their Efficacy
Funding: Anne Elizabeth Withers Endowed Fund for Summer Scholars
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Mary Fox, 2010 - Ideology, Individualism, and Financial Literacy
Funding: Paul R. Ashbrook Endowed Fund for the Betterment of the Underprivileged
Department: Socioloy/Anthropology
Meg Gaertner, 2010 - Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns in DC
Funding: McMahon Internship
Department: Political Science
Erin Garvey, 2008 - Research cell: The Politics of Oil and Resource Curse
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Erin Garvey, 2009 - The Resource Curse and Dutch Disease in Oil-Producing Countries: A Review of the Literature
Funding: The William G. Bowen and Mary Ellen Bowen Endowed Fund
Department: Economics
Aparna Ghosh, 2006 - Japanese Linguistics: How Tradition and Innovation in the Japanese Language Play a Role in Modern Society
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Andrew Gordon, 2010 - The Effect of Group Cohesion on Democratic Practices in Churches: The Case of ELCA Debate on Allowing openly Gay Clergy
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Political Science
Lilla Grisham, 2010 - AIDS patients in DC
Funding: McMahon Internship
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Anna Hammersmith, 2010 - Acculturation of Somali Refugees in Columbus, Ohio
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Robert Horn, 2006 - Testing Van Frassen's Model of Explanation
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Qi Hu, 2008 - How Far is Sweden from Adopting the Euro?
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Shiyu Huang, 2010 - Fair Trade: Potential Source of Development for Rural China?
Funding: Freeman Scholarship Fund
Department: Economics
Ruiya Huang, 2010 - Offshore Outsourcing: Its Development, Current Status and the Exploration of its Future potentials in Chinese Firms Being Outsourcing Partners
Funding: Burton Morgan Foundation
Department: Economics
Rachel Hughes , 2006 - The Dutch Experience: Coming Out Narratives and the Changing Face of the Gay Community in Amsterdam
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Patrick Hunt, 2007 - The Effects Of Religion on Views Toward Environmental Policy
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Evan Johnson, 2010 - The Responsibility to Protect US Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Funding: The William G. Bowen and Mary Ellen Bowen Endowed Fund
Department: Political Science
Megan Keaveney, 2010 - The Effects of Commercial and Industrial Mining on Public Health: Kimberley, South Africa: a Case Study
Funding: Laura C. Harris Endowed Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Andrew Kindle, 2007 - Environmental Support and Religious Beliefs
Funding: The William G. Bowen and Mary Ellen Bowen Endowed Fund
Major: Political Science
James Klein, 2005 - “Governmental Responses to Terrorism: The Impact of the War on Terror on Selected Institutions in the United States and Russia”
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Jessica Leary, 2008 - KIPP and the Nation: Educating the Underserved in U.S. Public Schools
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Justin Leibowitz, 2007 - Pricing Gasoline Using the Ecological and Neoclassical Economic Paradigms
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Sarah Link, 2007 - Shifting Pathways to Social Justice: The Evolution of Zapatista Strategic Action in the Mexican Indigenous Movement
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Kai Liu, 2009 - Securitization and its Role in Today's Global Crisis: A comparative study of the U.S. and the European housing, mortgage, and security markets
Funding: Sue Douthit O'Donnell Endowed Fund
Department: Burczak
Xijie Lv, 2009 - Policies for the U.S. to Combat Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Funding: The Carl Arvid Anderson Family Fund
Department: Economics & International Studies
Cameron Marlin, 2005 - Environmental Perception as influenced by culture and religion - a case study of tibet
Funding: East Asian Studies Fund
Major: Environmental Studies, Soc/Anth concentration
Leslie Marshall, 2007 - Organizing Uncertainty—Under the Protection of Citizenship: Epidemic Disease as a Mechanism of Social Control
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Emily Marshall, 2009 - Did a Departure From the Taylor Rule in U.S. Monetary Policy Cause the Housing Bubble?
Funding: Sue Douthit O'Donnell Endowed Fund
Department: Economics
Leslie Marshall, 2009 - Review of Literature Recognition as Intervention in Civil Conflict: The Case Studies of Kosovo and East Timor
Funding: Pascal Carter Scholarship
Department: Philosophy, Politics, & Economics
Jessica Mazur, 2010 - Exploring independent and interactive associations between resting, endocrine function, psychosocial perceptions, and vigorous physical exercise
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Physical Education
Robert Moore, 2009 - The 2000 Redistricting Cycle and Its Impact on Representational Accuracy
Funding: Robert F. and Marion E. Ball Family Fund
Department: Political Science
Jordan Mora, 2005 - Detrital Cycling in a Central Ohio Mitigation Wetland
Funding: J. Reid and Polly Anderson Summer Research Scholarship
Major: Environmental Studies, Music Performance
Charles Murray, 2010 - Exploring independent and interactive associations between resting, endocrine function, psychosocial perceptions, and vigorous physical exercise
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Physical Education
Christilyn Nailing, 2008 - Research Cell: The Politics of Oil and Resource Curse
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Jacob Neiheisel, 2005 - Ohio Issue 1: The Role of Clergy in the Campaign to Ban Gay Marriage
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science, Economics
Adam Neizmik, 2006 - Comparative Studies of Ethnic Conflict: Theories on Origins of Inter/Intra-State Ethnic Conflict
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science/Economics
James Nelson, 2006 - Investigation of Minimalist Shoe Use on Navicular Drop Magnitude
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Athletic Training
Lisa Nowack, 2006 - To Pay or Not to Pay? The Costs of Health Care for At-Risk, Homeless Citizens
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Megan Ogle, 2007 - A Community Needs Assessment on Nature and Education: The Case for the Spring Valley Environmental Education Center
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Environmental Studies
Michelle Oyakawa, 2008 - Structure Versus Agency: Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Society
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Michelle Oyakawa, 2007 - Voice in Online Communities: The Formation of Individual and Group Identities
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Steven Profitt, 2010 - Crossing the Border: A Global Phenomenon in an American Context
Funding: International Paper Company Foundation Research Scholarship
Department: Political Science
Victoria Roberts, 2009 - Enlightenment and the Teachings of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Funding: McNair Scholars Program
Department: Educational Studies
Anne Rogers, 2005 - Homosexuality and Christianity: A Biological Perspective
Funding: Nancy and Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for Woodyard Summer Fellowships
Major: Environmental Studies
Johnathan Ross, 2009 - Orchestral Composition
Funding: Helen L. Yeakel Summer Research Fund
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Erin Saul, 2010 - The Role of Artists in Political Change in Northern Ireland During the Troubles
Funding: Robert F. and Marion E. Ball Family Fund
Department: Political Science
Michael Scholl, 2005 - Governmental Responses to Terrorism: The Impact of the War on Terror on Selected Institutions in the United States and Russia
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Ian Shapiro, 2010 - Middle of the Road, Middle of the Pack: Congressional Blue Dog Caucus and the Representations for the Moderate American
Funding: The William G. Bowen and Mary Ellen Bowen Endowed Fund
Department: Political Science
Leah Simmet, 2006 - For Better or Worse: The Impact of Accession into the European Union on Central and Eastern Europe
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: International Studies and Economics
Eric Singh, 2010 - Outlinging Entrepreneurship for Refugess: Possibilities for Somali Business Ownership in Columbus, Ohio
Funding: Burton Morgan Foundation
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Neha Singhania, 2006 - James Pletcher Analysis of the Indian Service Sector Using The Global Value Chain Theory
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Caitlyn Smith, 2007 - Blocked Borders: An Ethnography of Marginalized Voices on the US-Mexico Border.
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Matt Storey, 2005 - Validation of the Previous Day Physical Activity Recall for the reporting of physically active and sedentary behaviors
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Athletic Training
Jennifer Swank, 2005 - The Bus Driver's Sanity Problem
Funding: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Major: Mathematics and Economics
Zachary Thomas, 2006 - Economic Analysis of Green Building/Restoration on College Campuses
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Environmental Studies
Ellie Thompson, 2010 - Ideology, Individualism, and Financial Literacy
Funding: Paul R. Ashbrook Endowed Fund for the Betterment of the Underprivileged
Department: Sociology/Anthropology
Kate Tlach, 2007 - The International Flower Industry in Ecuador: "Development" and its Consequences in Latin America
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Michelle Tverdosi, 2008 - Research Cell: The Politics of Oil and Resource Curse
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science, History
Michelle Tverdosi, 2009 - The Czech Presidency of the European Union Council and the Lisbon Treaty: Critical Junctures and the Challenge of Leadership
Funding: International Paper Company Foundation Research Scholarship
Department: Political Science
Alisha Visan, 2006 - Children, Poverty, and Therapeutic Intervention
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Sociology/Anthropology
Chenggang Wang, 2009 - The East Asian Union: Challenge and Chance
Funding: Robert F. and Marion E. Ball Family Fund
Department: Economics & East Asian Studies
Samantha Webb, 2008 - Religion's Influence in Political Tolerance: Survey Experimental Evidence
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Polly Webster, 2007 - Organizing Uncertainty—Managing Fear in the United States: The Social Construction and Governmentality of Criminal Risk
Funding: Sue Douthit O'Donnell Endowed Fund
Major: Political Science
Dave Whissel, 2007 - Ethical Economics: A Normative Examination of Economic Institutions Through the Lens of Ethical Theory
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Economics
Scott Williams, 2006 - Spatial Variability of Non-native Plant Species Richness on Islands in the Georgian Bay, Ontario
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Environmental studies
Joshua Williams, 2005 - Russian and American attitudes towards civil liberties and the media in an age of terrorism
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: Political Science
Tiffany Young, 2007 - The Roots of Terrorism: The Relationship Between Terrorism, National Ideologies, and War
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: POSC
Megan Young, 2007 - Organizing Uncertainty—Measuring the Threats of Environmental Pollution: The Cultural and Sociological Implications of Risk and Fear in Natural Disasters
Funding: The Young Scholar Program
Major: POSC
Jing Zhu, 2010 - American Transnational Business Acclimatizing to Chinese Consumer Culture
Funding: Freeman Scholarship Fund
Department: Economics